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  • I legitimately hate it. Trash font. Hard to read and fucking ugly. It looks like it’s almost an OCR font.

    As much as I hate Google, I have to admit Roboto is a great font. Same with Microsoft and Segoe UI.

    But, there will never, ever, ever be a better font than Palatino. Adobe’s Garamond Pro (and most Garamond knockoffs) are close, but Palatino is just amazing in every way. Specifically, Palatino Linotype is the best Palatino version.

    That being said, Palatino doesn’t make a great display font. For that, I would much prefer Cantarell over that Nokia font.

    Also, Ubuntu fonts are S tier. I don’t care if you disagree.















  • I’m an open source developer who’s put thousands of hours of work into my open source projects.

    • Amount of money I’ve made from writing and maintaining open source projects: $0
    • Amount of money I’ve made from writing and maintaining closed source projects: idk exactly, but probably close to $1,000,000 (over ten years of working in big tech)

    I get wanting to use open source software. I want to use open source software. I want to write open source software. I do write open source software. But please understand that I only do that because I enjoy it. I also need to pay the bills, and there’s not much money in writing open source software.

    If you value an open source project, especially if it’s just a small development team that doesn’t sell anything, please donate to them.

    Right now, I run an email service, https://port87.com/, and it is technically closed source. But it’s built on my open source projects, Svelte Material UI, Nymph.js, and Nephele. Probably about 70% of the code that makes up Port87 is open source, and if you use Port87, you’re helping me continue to develop those open source projects. So even if you don’t donate to open source projects, there are other ways to contribute. Support companies who support open source projects.